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Isn’t usaid under a different department now? If it no longer a separate entity, it won’t get direct funding but it would come through that department and appear like it didn’t receive funding
 

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Isn’t usaid under a different department now? If it no longer a separate entity, it won’t get direct funding but it would come through that department and appear like it didn’t receive funding
I think that's correct. They've moved it under the State Department, and it does not have a separate line item for funding there.
 

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Isn’t usaid under a different department now? If it no longer a separate entity, it won’t get direct funding but it would come through that department and appear like it didn’t receive funding

Rubio has covered this numerous times. If we are going to give any food or medicine to a third world area he will will be directing that aid. No more Color Revolutions with it under Trump. There are no permanent fixes to any of this other than holding people accountable. If the Democrats get back in power they undo everything Trump has done.
 

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They've perfected their money skimming operations over decades for sure.

They didn't waste 7 trillion in one year. It was millions and in some cases billions since 2000. Do that every year and it adds up.
 

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They didn't waste 7 trillion in one year. It was millions and in some cases billions since 2000. Do that every year and it adds up.
 

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USAID for Asia.....


USAID for Africa


USAID for Eupore


USAID for Middle East

English translation: (please send me more money please?)


DJT on tax cuts in his "big beautiful bill"

Thank you DJT.
 
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Did you Trumpers know this "big beautiful bill" totally defunds Planned Parenthood? No more taxpayer funded abortions!

House Passes 'Big Beautiful Bill', Pro-Life Advocates Applaud Cuts to Planned Parenthood Funding

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GOP lawmakers introduced a provision in the"Big Beautiful Bill" that would cut Medicaid funds from going to the abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood. The bill includes language that not only removes taxpayer funding from the abortion giant but also cuts funding "for organizations that participate in transgender medical interventions for minors."

Meantime...baby killing transgendered Leftists everywhere are crying like newborns (who were allowed to live btw) ;)


 

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BREAKING: This morning the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, which includes key tax provisions critical to the hospitality industry. Among them:
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Permanency for the Small Business Deduction (Section 199A) and an increase of the Qualified Business Income deduction
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Preserving the Like-Kind Exchange (Section 1031)
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Extending bonus depreciation at 100% for almost five yearsThese critical tax provisions will prevent a tax increase on American workers and the small businesses that are the backbone of America’s hotel and lodging industry. Read our full statement: https://hubs.ly/Q03nKDTz0
 

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Politics aside, we need to appropriate sufficient money to counter the Asia-Pacific threat of China and North Korea.

China has been stealing our technology designs for a long time and spending like crazy to develop their navy, stealth planes, and other offensive measures.

Thankfully, although North Korea is trying to modernize, there is still a bit of a Keystone Cop air to what they do (but they are moving forward):

Failure to Launch

With Europe increasing their collective defense expenditures, we should be able to strengthen our efforts to stop Iran from getting nuclear weaponry, and increase our build-up of forces in the Pacific.
 

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Once his term is complete, and his agenda established (not complete, just set in motion) he will have proven to be one of THE most consequential Presidents in U.S. history. Just look how much he's transformed so far in Foreign policy, domestic policy, the culture, the bureaucracy, even how the media operates!

He's singlehandedly shifted the paradigm in retail politics, and there will never be another political animal like him.

NEVER.
 
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History will remember Donald Trump as a highly consequential President

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There’s no arguing against the proposition that, having won a second term which means he will have utterly dominated US politics for a decade or more, that Trump is a consequential president. He has made the Republican party into the party of Trumpism. And by choosing J.D. Vance as his vice-president, he has potentially settled the question of a legacy for the Maga movement with the potential to carry on into another generation.

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On the international stage – and as a political disruptor – Trump will be a source of uncertainty for governments from Europe to Asia. There are those that argue his is an effective foreign policy approach. His supporters make a great deal of the fact that there were no major wars during his first administration like the ones that now imperil the world today. And to be sure, his inconsistency and the uncertainty that this brings, could be viewed as the embodiment of the “madman theory” which holds that an unpredictable leader is an effective deterrent in the era of nuclear arsenals.

You Da Man DJT!
 

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Politics aside, we need to appropriate sufficient money to counter the Asia-Pacific threat of China and North Korea.

China has been stealing our technology designs for a long time and spending like crazy to develop their navy, stealth planes, and other offensive measures.

Thankfully, although North Korea is trying to modernize, there is still a bit of a Keystone Cop air to what they do (but they are moving forward):

Failure to Launch

With Europe increasing their collective defense expenditures, we should be able to strengthen our efforts to stop Iran from getting nuclear weaponry, and increase our build-up of forces in the Pacific.
I think the Chinese are launching a ship a day and we’re going to buy some freighters from them cause we’ve let our building go to ****. The greatest ship building area ever not producing, brilliant.
 

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I think the Chinese are launching a ship a day and we’re going to buy some freighters from them cause we’ve let our building go to ****. The greatest ship building area ever not producing, brilliant.
Greed has caused us to let many industries go to **** . The Chinese are not stupid people they have been dropping that little Asian wiener up in us for years.....
 

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they have been dropping that little Asian wiener up in us for years.....
Ha...ha......that @roadtrasheer American Capitalist pig over there make Chinese Communist party leader laugh!

Hmmm...funny what he say about Chinese Communist party... and true ha...ha...

Yeah he knows how we're getting raped by you Chinese Communist slimes Xi. :rolleyes:
 
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He's exactly right! Robust economic growth fueled by low energy costs and higher wages due to tax cuts, plus spending restraint in our discretionary outlays means more revenue into the treasury which if we're smart, we'll use to start retiring some of this debt we've piled up by borrowing and/or printing money we don't have!

We still have to address entitlement spending since that's where the majority of our unsustainable debt resides, but if we can get this economy growing we can use those additional revenues to both shore up Social Security and Medicare in the near term, as well as push for funding reforms in the longer term to place them on a more financially stable platform (like private investment markets).

However job #1 is growing this economy and getting wages up. The "big beautiful bill" is our ignition point.

We're going to make it happen!

MAGA DJT baby. All the way!!!!!!!

I love it when we talk MAGA Atl!


It's all good DJT!!!!!
 
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He's exactly right! Robust economic growth fueled by low energy costs and higher wages due to tax cuts, plus spending restraint in our discretionary outlays means more revenue into the treasury which if we're smart we'll use to begin retiring some of this debt we've piled up by simply borrowing and/or printing money we don't have!

We still have to address entitlement spending since that's where the majority of our unsustainable debt resides, but if we can get the economy growing we can use those additional revenue to both shore up Social Security and Medicare, as well as push for funding reforms to place them on a financially stable platform (like private investments).

However job #1 is growing this economy and getting wages up. The "big beautiful bill" is our ignition point.

We're going to make it happen!

MAGA DJT baby. All the way!!!!!!!

I love it when we talk MAGA Atl!


It's going to take all that just to pay the interest on the 37 trillion. Which is hole we are fighting out of now. Going to take a whole different approach to takle the 37 trillion. Anyone who says they got an answer for that is full of ****. Hence why rooting against the US Dollar is dumb. The Democrats actually want to bankrupt us so they can implement a Central Bank Digital Currency and control what you spend your money on.
 
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He's exactly right! Robust economic growth fueled by low energy costs and higher wages due to tax cuts, plus spending restraint in our discretionary outlays means more revenue into the treasury which if we're smart, we'll use to start retiring some of this debt we've piled up by borrowing and/or printing money we don't have!

We still have to address entitlement spending since that's where the majority of our unsustainable debt resides, but if we can get this economy growing we can use those additional revenues to both shore up Social Security and Medicare in the near term, as well as push for funding reforms in the longer term to place them on a more financially stable platform (like private investment markets).

However job #1 is growing this economy and getting wages up. The "big beautiful bill" is our ignition point.

We're going to make it happen!

MAGA DJT baby. All the way!!!!!!!

I love it when we talk MAGA Atl!


It's all good DJT!!!!!
Government getting control on spending is like asking Biden to stop sniffing little girls....
Getting decent paying middle class jobs is the critical ingredient.
It gets people off entitlements until the mid 60's as it should be .
It gets people off the streets that reduces crime in turn reduces government spending
It makes people have pride and dignity in themselves as they spend there OWN hard earned money and that helps ...
But getting our useless vacation taken elected leaches stop foolishly spending money to get re elected......better luck at college football getting back to education first
More to jobs than just a paycheck.
 

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Uhhhh… Tarriffs Are NEW TAXES. Oh, and let’s not forget he’s adding TRILLIONS to the deficit with new spending. How is that possible? He promised to CUT the deficit. What happened?

Confused Donald Trump GIF
 

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Uhhhh… Tarriffs Are NEW TAXES. Oh, and let’s not forget he’s adding TRILLIONS to the deficit with new spending. How is that possible? He promised to CUT the deficit. What happened?

Confused Donald Trump GIF
Not if the products are made in America.
Products made in America pays taxes many many many ways and it makes people more independent and self sufficient. Just imagine 1 factory in small town USA......let's say 200 production line and 40 maintenance, how many jobs does that create?
 

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Not if the products are made in America.
Products made in America pays taxes many many many ways and it makes people more independent and self sufficient. Just imagine 1 factory in small town USA......let's say 200 production line and 40 maintenance, how many jobs does that create?
Not Entirely True. These American companies purchase materials from overseas manufacturers. And those materials would still be taxed. And believing these companies are suddenly going to relocate their manufacturing facilities and supply chains to the US to avoid paying the Trump Tariffs is foolhardy. What’s more likely to happen is they simply find an alternate foreign source of supply that has less tariffs. And in the end, they will pass those increased costs on to you, the consumer, in higher prices. That’s closer to reality than thinking, wishing, HOPING these companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to uproot their facilities and workforce and move it to the US. Pipe Dream.
 

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Not Entirely True. These American companies purchase materials from overseas manufacturers. And those materials would still be taxed. And believing these companies are suddenly going to relocate their manufacturing facilities and supply chains to the US to avoid paying the Trump Tariffs is foolhardy. What’s more likely to happen is they simply find an alternate foreign source of supply that has less tariffs. And in the end, they will pass those increased costs on to you, the consumer, in higher prices. That’s closer to reality than thinking, wishing, HOPING these companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to uproot their facilities and workforce and move it to the US. Pipe Dream.
God only knows and time will tell.
Call me what you want but believing in doing the same thing we've been doing for the last 40 years is gonna help is foolish. Companies are coming here and was coming in Trump's first term . If the tariffs only get our needs produced here it's a win . We are 37 trillion in debt by doing things your way ...... let's give tariffs a chance .
Yes I hate them adding trillions to the budget, no I'm not 100% happy with the bill for many reasons.
 

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Not if the products are made in America.
Products made in America pays taxes many many many ways and it makes people more independent and self sufficient. Just imagine 1 factory in small town USA......let's say 200 production line and 40 maintenance, how many jobs does that create?
Hey @roadtrasheer have 'ya noticed how silent our friends on the Left have been up until now while WE (America) were paying sky-high tariffs to our foreign trading partners while they were paying us next to nothing and restricting our access to their markets adding insult to injury? 🤔

Now along comes Donald John Trump who says... "enough we're going to start charging you guys like you're charging us"... and all of a sudden the America hating Left is having a Cow. 😏

What???? You mean Leftists hate us???????

Naw Moo Moo...they just hate anything that helps America! :rolleyes:

That's why they hate me because I ❤️❤️❤️❤️LOVE❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ America!!!!!

They hate us too DJT, because we love that you love America Bro.



Oh please, oh please, oh please don't let "orange man bad" MAGA!!!!!!!

They can't stop you now DJT...rock on Bro!

Workin' it atl...working it good!!!!!!
 
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Who's investing in America? 23 big companies that just promised billions under Trump

Trump's tariff announcements have kicked off a mad dash of companies now willing to invest in the US to avoid paying higher tariffs. Here's a brief rundown of who some of those companies are:

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Top CEOs pledge billions to rebuild US industry under Trump’s second-term agenda​

1. Hyundai, represented by José Muñoz, is investing $21 billion, including $5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana that will create at least 1,500 jobs. Trump described it as "a beauty" and applauded Hyundai for building in America.

2. CMA CGM, led by Rodolphe Saadé, will spend $20 billion on ports, shipping, and logistics infrastructure, including a new air cargo hub in Chicago. This investment is expected to create 10,000 jobs and support the U.S. shipping industry.

3. Toyota, with Ted Ogawa in attendance, is putting $88 million into expanding hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia factory. Trump noted he’d visited the facility and called it "fantastic."

4. Anduril, led by Brian Schimpf, is investing $1 billion in a new drone and defense technology facility in Ohio. The plant will focus on autonomous weapons systems and add thousands of jobs over time.

5. Amazon, represented by Doug Herrington, is investing $4 billion this year, with more expected, focused on logistics and cloud infrastructure across the U.S.

6. Venture Global, headed by Mike Sabel, is putting $18 billion into liquefied natural gas expansion in Louisiana, supporting U.S. energy independence.

7. Siemens USA, under Barbara Humpton, is investing $285 million to grow advanced manufacturing operations and create nearly 1,000 skilled jobs.

8. Pratt Industries, led by Anthony Pratt, has committed $5 billion to expand its American recycling and packaging facilities, creating thousands of jobs in several states.

9. Chobani, founded by Hamdi Ulukaya, is investing $1.7 billion, including $1.2 billion for a new dairy plant in New York. Trump joked the U.S. might start exporting yogurt thanks to Chobani’s growth.

10. Bel Brands USA, led by Ivan Giraud, is putting $350 million into expanding cheese and snack production. Babybel cheeses sold in the U.S. will continue sourcing American milk and the company will expand U.S. production. Bel's Mini Babybel cheese made in the U.S. sources milk from South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. After the investment, Bel will expand annual U.S. production of the product by 10,000 tons.

11. Schneider Electric, represented by Aamir Paul, is investing $700 million into U.S. energy infrastructure. It is the largest investment in the company’s 135-year history.

12. Johnson & Johnson, under CEO Joaquin Duato, will invest $55 billion in new manufacturing and technology upgrades across the country.

13. Eli Lilly, led by David Ricks, is putting $27 billion into expanding domestic pharmaceutical production and new facilities.

14. Novartis, represented by CEO Vas Narasimhan, plans to invest $23 billion in building or expanding 10 drug manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

15. Genentech, part of the Roche Group and led by Ashley Magargee, announced a massive $50 billion commitment to biotech manufacturing and research.

16. AbbVie, with Rob Michael at the helm, is investing $10 billion to build four new pharmaceutical plants across the U.S.

17. Thermo Fisher Scientific, led by Marc Casper, is expanding its operations with a $2 billion investment into medical supply and diagnostics manufacturing.

18. Merck, under Rob Davis, will spend $9 billion to grow its domestic vaccine and drug production capacity.

19. Abbott Laboratories, led by Robert Ford, is investing $500 million to improve facilities in Illinois and Texas, especially for diagnostics and medical devices.

20. IBM, with Arvind Krishna as CEO, announced a $150 billion investment to grow U.S. research, chip development and AI technology.

21. GE Aerospace, led by Larry Culp, is putting $1 billion into factories across 16 states to build jet engines for both commercial and military aircraft. Trump praised the company’s leadership in aerospace innovation.

22. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, is partnering with Oracle and OpenAI on a total $700 billion investment in AI infrastructure in the U.S. This includes the largest private sector project in American history to support the development of advanced computing.

23. Apple, represented by CEO Tim Cook, is investing $500 billion to build factories and expand operations across seven or eight U.S. states. Trump noted this was a major shift for Apple, which previously concentrated production overseas.

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100 DAYS OF INVESTMENT: $5+ Trillion in New Investment Fuels America’s Future

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President Donald J. Trump has secured over $5 trillion in new U.S.-based investments in his first 100 days, which will create more than 451,000 new jobs as he sets the stage for a new era of American prosperity. From advanced manufacturing to cutting-edge artificial intelligence infrastructure, these historic investments — spurred by President Trump’s unwavering commitment to revitalizing American industry — will reinforce the U.S. as the global leader in innovation and economic growth.

There's more coming too....wait 'till the Towel heads in the Middle East start investing their oil wealth with us!

Damn DJT....you're killin' it Bro!

  • United Arab Emirates announced a $1.4 trillion investment in the U.S. over the next decade.
  • Saudi Arabia announced it intends to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.
  • Japan announced a $1 trillion investment in the U.S.
  • Taiwan announced a pledge to boost its U.S.-based investment.

Yeah I know atl!
 
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